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I bought 4 movies from Blinkbox, all of which were supposedly in HD.
I have tried them on two different devices,
a Sony Laptop with a 5Mb broadband connection, from Virgin media,
and the other a Surface Pro and on a 13Mb connection from EE, which never gets below 12Mb, connected to a 40 inch LCD TV via HDMI.
In both instances, the quality is nowhere near HD, not even close to 720p. There are times when you could be forgiven for thinking the quality is worth the full price, if you squint your eyes maybe, but the problem comes and goes - sometimes it looks OK and I just mean OK, not HD....and the next, there is so much MPEG blocking, it almost becomes offensive to watch. It becomes especially obvious when there is a lot of movement, or plenty of detail in the scene.
The only positive out of this is that the HD movies I bought only cost 50p...even at that price, I'm not sure I will be buying any more.
In summary, I would not recommend BlinkBox to a friend.
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